Valentyn Rybin, lawyer of arrested former deputy of the Communist Party of Ukraine Alla Aleksandrovska called on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, deputies Yulia Tymoshenko and Nadiya Savchenko to grant the guarantees to the Kharkiv Appeal Court to release his client from prison due to her health condition.
“Aleksandrovska’s health causes serious concerns. I believe, such inhumane treatment of an elderly woman is unacceptable in the country, which seeks European integration and all-round protection of human rights,” he said at an Interfax-Ukraine press conference on Sept. 20.
He recalled that Aleksandrovska is suspected of infringement of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and “organizing the illegal profit of a public official.”
Rybin said that a restrictive measure in the form of single-option placement into custody was selected due to the suspicion of infringement on the territorial integrity.
At that, the lawyer said, “there was no infringement on the territorial integrity on Aleksandrovska’s part, there is none and there never will be.” “Having analyzed the files of the criminal case, I came to a conclusion that Aleksandrovska’s criminal prosecution is a well-organized provocation of SBU [the Security Service of Ukraine]. The case files contain denunciation and false testimony,” he said.
Due to that he called on female deputies, in particular, the Batkivshchyna faction leader Yulia Tymoshenko and parliamentarian Nadiya Savchenko, who “experienced the conditions of imprisonment first-hand,” to provide written guarantees for Aleksandrovska to the Kharkiv Regional Appeal Court, which will consider the appeal against the restrictive measure on Sept. 22.
The lawyer also said that he addressed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. “I would like to request the president as guarantor of the Constitution […] to pay attention to this case and give a relevant guarantee for Aleksandrovska to the Kharkiv Regional Appeal Court,” Rybin said.
“I would like to make a request with Yuriy Vitaliyovych [Lutsenko] to personally oversee the progress of the proceedings. I will file an application to initiate the criminal proceedings against the SBU department investigators, who signed the notification of suspicion, today,” he added.
The lawyer said that Aleksandrovska agreed to remain under house arrest, receive relevant medical care and appear during the pre-trial investigation and in court.
“Aleksandrovska needs to be released immediately, unless we risk losing a person. […] Aleksandrovska’s diagnoses are exceptional even for convicted people. The people with these diagnoses are freed from serving a sentence and she is a suspect,” he said.
Oleksandr Shadrin, another lawyer of Aleksandrovska, said on June 28 that a search was conducted at the premises of his client and she was arrested. She was charged under the Articles ‘infringement of Ukraine’s territorial integrity’ and ‘offer, promise or providing the illegal profit to a public official’ of the Ukrainian Criminal Code.
Aleksandrovska currently remains in custody on the court’s decision until October 28, 2016.
